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Hi Craig,

> A few questions for you.
>
> (1)  I want to get the same FreeNAS image working inside Bhyve and on
> real hardware.
>        In the source code for /sbin/init, when it parses /etc/ttys,
>        if the entry does not exist, it prints out an error message about
> not being able to find
>        the tty entry to open it.
>        Do you know if there is a way to specify an entry for /dev/ttyu2,
> only if it
>        exists, and not print out an error message otherwise?

  Not without modifying init :( This seems a very old Unix limitation.

> (2)  Is it possible to connect to the console of the BHyve VM via /dev/ttyu2
>        or some other mechanism?  I would like to be able to connect to
> the BHyve VM
>        and use something like Expect or py-expect to execute console
> commands in the VM,
>        for automated testing.

  Not currently - the only options you have are to run bhyve under 
expect, or set up a network port and log in and run expect on commands.

  I have what I think is a plan to fix this: maybe for 10.1.

later,

Peter.